- Grand Master
In Freemasonry the Grand Master is the supreme ruler of the Craft within a given jurisdiction. He presides over his Grand Lodge and has certain rights in each private lodge (constituent lodge) within his jurisdiction. Just as the Worshipful Master of each private lodge annually appoints lodge officers to assist him, so the Grand Master of each Grand Lodge annually appoints grand lodge officers to assist him in his work.
- Isaac Master
Isaac Master (March 19 1834 - 1898) was an Ontario farmer and political figure. He represented Waterloo South in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario as a Liberal member from 1878 to 1890. He was born in Wilmot Township, Waterloo County, Upper Canada in 1834, of Pennsylvania Dutch descent. In 1857, he married Lydia Fried. He was first elected to the Ontario assembly in a by-election held after the death of John Fleming.
- Streynsham Master
Streynsham Master (1640-1724) was one of the early pioneers of the British East India Company who served as the Agent of Madras from 27 January 1678 to 3 July 1681. He is credited with having introduced the first administrative reforms in the Madras Government.
- John Huston
John Huston (born June 1, 1961) is an American professional golfer who currently plays on the PGA Tour. Huston was born in Mt. Vernon, Illinois. He attended Auburn University in Auburn, Alabama and was a member of the golf team. He turned pro in 1983. Huston has won seven PGA Tour events and has had more than 80 top-10 finishes in his career. He has a history of being a "streaky" player, who either plays extremely well or mediocre.
- Anthony Hamilton
Anthony Hamilton (born June 29, 1971, Nottingham, East Midlands) is an English professional snooker player. He is nicknamed "the Sheriff of Pottingham", and his distinctive goatee beard has also earned him the less flattering nickname of "Swampy", after the eco-warrior. He now lives in Muswell Hill, north London.
- Vijay Singh
Vijay Singh (born 22 February, 1963) is a professional golfer who was number one in the Official World Golf Rankings for 32 weeks in 2004 and 2005. A Indo - Fijian of Hindu ancestry, he was born in Lautoka, Fiji and grew up in Nadi. His name means "Victorious Lion". He has won three major championships (The Masters in 2000 and the PGA Championship in 1998 and 2004) and was the leading PGA Tour money winner in 2003 and 2004.
- Andrea Immer
Andrea Immer Demystifying wine for the American audience is a worthy goal, and here Master Sommelier Immer (she's one of just 10 women to hold the title) makes an accomplished stab at a difficult task. In chapters such as
- Ha Jin
Jīn Xuěfēi is a contemporary Chinese-American writer using the pen name Ha Jin (哈金). Ha Jin was born in Liaoning, China in 1956. His father was a military officer, and Jin joined the People's Liberation Army in 1969 during the Cultural Revolution. In 1981 he graduated from Heilongjiang University with a Bachelor's degree in English studies, and three years later obtained his Masters in Anglo-American literature at Shandong University.
- John Foster Dulles
John Foster Dulles (February 25, 1888 - May 24, 1959) served as U.S. Secretary of State under President Dwight D. Eisenhower from 1953 to 1959. He was a significant figure in the early Cold War era, advocating an aggressive stance against communism around the world. He advocated support of the French in their war against the Viet Minh in Indochina and famously refused to shake the hand of Zhou Enlai at the Geneva Conference in 1954.
- Butch Harmon
Claude "Butch" Harmon, Jr. (born August 28, 1943) is one of the world's best known golf instructors. He is the son of 1948 Masters champion Claude Harmon, Sr. and has been in the golf industry since 1965. Harmon was a PGA Tour player from 1969 to 1971, with one win to his name on the Tour, the 1971 Broome County Open. Harmon is best known for having been Tiger Woods' golf coach early in the great champion's career, though they have since gone their separate ways.
- Sam Snead
Samuel Jackson "Sam" Snead (May 27, 1912 - May 23, 2002) was an American golfer who was one of the top players in the world for most of 4 decades. He and two others of the greatest golfers of all time, Ben Hogan and Byron Nelson, were born within 6 months of each other in 1912. He won a record 82 PGA Tour events and about 70 others worldwide. He won seven majors: three Masters, three PGA Championships and one British Open.
- Ryan Moore
Ryan David Moore (born December 5, 1982) is an American professional golfer, currently playing on the PGA Tour.
- Ben Crenshaw
Ben Daniel Crenshaw (born January 11, 1952) is an American golfer. He was born in Austin, Texas. He attended and played golf at Austin High School and the University of Texas before turning professional in 1973. Crenshaw won his first event in his rookie season on the PGA Tour, and picked up a win more seasons than not from then on. In 1984 he won The Masters, one of golf's four major championships. In the mid-1980s he suffered from Graves' disease, …
- Brian Morgan
Brian Morgan is an English professional snooker player. He was among the top 32 players in the world rankings for several years. He reached the second round of the World Championship in 1994. He also qualified for the tournament in 1995 and 1997. In 1996 he won the Benson & Hedges Championship, which entitles its winner to a wild card place in the Masters.
- Angela Smith
Angela Smith (b. 3 July 1953 in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England) is a retired professional English squash player. Smith was the first female squash player to turn professional, doing so in 1977 in order to make a career from tournament play rather than coaching. She is widely recognized for changing the face of women's squash by going professional.
- Robert Allenby
Robert Allenby (born 12 July 1971) is one of the leading Australian professional golfers of his generation. Allenby was born in Melbourne. He turned professional in 1992 and was soon successful, topping the PGA Tour of Australasia Order of Merit in his first season and again in 1994. He continues to play some events on his home tour and as of June 2005 he has nine wins on it, including one as an amateur.
- Sanjeev Kapoor
Sanjeev Kapoor (b. April 1964) is one of the top chefs in the World. He has authored many books and is the host of "Khana Khazana" a popular cookery program shown on Zee TV every Sunday since 1993. The show has completed 450 episodes. He started out in the hospitality industry in 1984 with a diploma in Hotel Management from Institute of Hotel Management Catering Technology & Applied Nutrition, Pusa, New Delhi.
- Sandy Lyle
Alexander Walter Barr "Sandy" Lyle, MBE (born February 9, 1958) is a Scottish golfer. Lyle was born in Shrewsbury, England and represented Scotland during his professional career. Along with Nick Faldo and Ian Woosnam, he became one of Britain's top golfers during the 1980s. Lyle was introduced to golf by his father, Alex, who had taken the family from Scotland to England in 1955 when he became resident professional at Hawkstone Park golf course.
- Mark Calcavecchia
Mark John Calcavecchia (born June 12, 1960) is an American golfer. Calcavecchia was born in Laurel, Nebraska. He attended the University of Florida, turned professional in 1981 and joined the PGA Tour in 1982. He earned All-SEC honors in 1979. Calcavecchia was at his best in the late 1980s, notching up his most notable achievement in 1989, when he won The Open Championship (aka the British Open), which is one of golf's four major championships, …
- Ken Venturi
Ken Venturi (born May 15, 1931) was a prominent PGA Tour professional during the late 1950s and early 1960s. He was born in San Francisco, California. Venturi first gained national attention in 1956 when, as an amateur, he finished second in that year's Masters after leading from the first round. He shot a final round 80 and blew a 4 shot lead which prevented him from winning outright and thus becoming the first amateur to do so in the history of The Masters.
- Raymond Floyd
Raymond "Ray" Loran Floyd (born September 4, 1942) is an American professional golfer who has won numerous tournaments at both PGA Tour and Champions Tour level. Floyd was born at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. He attended the University of North Carolina. He turned professional in 1961, and quickly established himself on the PGA Tour, with his first victory coming at the St. Petersburg Open Invitational in 1963. He went on to win 22 times on tour, …
- Craig Wood
Craig Ralph Wood (November 18, 1901 - May 7, 1968) was an American professional golfer in the 1930's and 40's, the winner of 21 PGA Tour titles including two major championships and a member of three Ryder Cup teams (1931, 1933, 1935). He was born in Lake Placid, New York and died in Palm Beach, Florida.
- Jay Haas
Jay Dean Haas (born December 2, 1953) is an American golfer. Haas was born in St. Louis, Missouri. He attended Wake Forest University and was a member of the NCAA Championship team of the middle 1970s with Curtis Strange and Bob Byman that "Golf World" has called "the greatest college team of all time". He won the individual championship in 1975. He turned professional in 1976. Haas has had a solid career on the PGA Tour, winning nine times between 1978 and 1993.
- Henry B. Eyring
Henry Bennion Eyring (b. May 31 1933) is a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Born in Princeton, New Jersey, Eyring is the second child born to noted chemist Henry Eyring and his wife Mildred Bennion. Following the death of Church President Howard W. Hunter, Eyring was sustained to the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of the Church on April 1 1995 and ordained an Apostle later that same week.
- Donald Sultan
Donald Sultan (born 1951 in Asheville, North Carolina) is an American artist, known for large-scale still life paintings executed with bold contrasts of bright color and deep black forms, tight, nearly abstract compositions, and unorthodox media. After earning his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and Masters from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Sultan moved to New York City in 1975 to pursue his career.
- Harry Cooper
Harry E. Cooper (August 6, 1904 - October 17, 2000) was a prominent PGA Tour golfer of the 1920s and 1930s. He was born in the town of Leatherhead, England. His father was a professional golfer who had served as an apprentice to Old Tom Morris at St. Andrews. Cooper's family moved to Texas when Cooper was young, and his father took a job as a club professional in Dallas. A perennial U.S. Open contender (with seven top-10 finishes and second place in 1927 and 1936), …
- Charlie Gillett
Charlie Gillett born Feb 20, 1942 is a British radio presenter and writer, and in recent years has become one of the country's most influential proponents of 'world music'. Gillett began in journalism in 1968 with a weekly column in the "Record Mirror". His 1970 book, "The Sound of the City", was a history of popular music, originally written as his Masters thesis for Columbia University.
- Urvashi Butalia
Urvashi Butalia is an Indian feminist and historian. She is the Director and Co-founder of Kali for Women, India's first feminist publishing house. Butalia was born in Ambala India in 1952. She earned a B.A. in literature from Miranda House, Delhi University in 1971, a Masters in literature from Delhi University in 1973, and a Masters in South Asian Studies from the University of London in 1977.
- Larry Mize
Larry Mize (born September 23, 1958) is an American golfer. Despite a creditable career on the PGA Tour he is mainly known for just one shot - the chip from off the green at #11 - which secured his only major title, the 1987 Masters.
- Igor Ledochowski
Igor Ledochowski currently lives in Richmond, London, UK and is a devoted student of American Kenpo karate. He is the author of several acclaimed books and movements in the field of hypnosis.
- Jack Gardner
Jack D. Gardner is a General in the United States Army and the Commander-in-chief of the U.S. Army South where he oversees American military operations in 31 countries and 13 dependencies, in Central and South America and the Caribbean. His Operational Area of Responsibility covers over 15.6 million square miles of area, or one-sixth of the world's surface area. Gardner is a graduate of West Point and the Army Command and General Staff College.
- Scott Hoch
Scott Mabon Hoch (born November 24, 1955) is an American golfer, who represented his country in the Ryder Cup in 1997 and 2002. Hoch was born in Raleigh, North Carolina. He graduated from Wake Forest University in 1978, and was part of a winning Eisenhower Trophy team before turning pro in 1979. He has won several prestigious tournaments, including the Western Open, the Ford Championship at Doral, the Heineken Dutch Open and the Bob Hope Chrysler Classic.
- Scott Swan
Scott Swan is a screenwriter living in Los Angeles, CA. Best known for his work on seasons one and two of "Masters of Horror", Swan has been working with his writing partner Drew McWeeny for 20 years, since the two met in high school. Their recent films John Carpenter’s "Cigarette Burns" and "Pro-Life", both produced as part of the "Masters" series for Showtime, represent their first produced film work, but the two have been working professionally since 1994, …
- Dave Loggins
David Allen Loggins (born November 10 1947 in Mountain City, Tennessee) is a songwriter and the cousin of fellow musician Kenny Loggins. He was inducted to the Nashville Songwriters' Hall of Fame in 1995. Besides a prolific song-writing career, Loggins was previously employed as a draftsman at Bristol Metals and an insurance salesman. Dave Loggins is best known for writing and recording the Top Ten Hit "Please Come to Boston" in 1974.
- George Fazio
George Fazio (November 12, 1912 - June 6, 1986) was an American professional golfer and a golf course architect. Fazio, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was a respected player in the mid-twentieth century and competed in seven Masters tournaments from 1947 to 1954. His best finish was 14th in 1952. Overall, Fazio won two PGA Tour events, the 1946 Canadian Open and the 1947 Bing Crosby Pro-Am (in a tie with Ed Furgol). He had career earnings of more than $50,000.
- Will Harvey
Will Harvey (born c. 1967) is a Silicon Valley entrepreneur and game programmer who first made his mark in the video game industry when he was just fifteen and still in high school. Harvey is the Founder of IMVU, an instant messaging company, and of There, Inc., an MMOG company. In high school, Harvey was taking a computer programming class. His teacher asked the class if anyone knew anything about assembly language. Though he did not, Harvey raised his hand.
- Nancy Zimpher
Nancy L. Zimpher has served as President of the University of Cincinnati since 2003. In addition to her duties as president she is a professor of education. Prior to her service at the University of Cincinnati, Zimpher was a dean and professor of education at The Ohio State University (where she had earned her bachelors, masters and doctoral degrees), and then chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee between 1998 and 2003.
- Jimmy Demaret
James Newton Demaret (May 24, 1910 - December 28, 1983) was an American professional golfer. He won 31 events in a long career between 1935 and 1957 and was the first three-time winner of the Masters. Demaret reached his peak in the late 1940s with wins in the Masters in 1947, runner-up to Ben Hogan in both the 1948 U.S. Open and PGA Championship, and leading money winner and Vardon Trophy winner in 1947.
- Kevin Stadler
Kevin Stadler (born February 5, 1980) is an American golfer. Stadler was born in Reno, Nevada. He is the son of former Masters champion and 13-time winner on the PGA Tour Craig Stadler. He moved with his family to Denver, Colorado, where he attended Kent Denver School for high school, where he excelled on the school's golf team. He attended the University of Southern California and turned professional in 2002. In 2004 Stadler won twice on the second tier U.S. based tour, …
- Ed Oliver
Edward Stewart "Porky" Oliver, Jr. (September 6, 1916 - September 21, 1961) was an American golfer. (Birth year sometimes stated as 1915.) He was born in Wilmington, Delaware. He earned his nicknamed because he stood 5 foot 9 inches but weighed 240 pounds. He won 8 times on the PGA Tour in the1940s and 1950s. He was well known for finishing second in several major championships but not letting it get him down; lost to Ben Hogan in the finals of the 1946 PGA Championship, …